Answer the following questions briefly:
1: What was the purpose of construction of pit house?
2: How could you say that people used to cook food according to weather?
3: Explain the role of animals in the life of early men.
4: Why Koldihwa is famous?
5: Explain the historical importance of Daojali Hading.
6: Write a short note on Neolithic age.
7: Write a short note on Bolan pass.
8: How did the early man become farmers?
9: Did the lifestyle of the early man change everywhere and at once?
10: What do you think would have been cooked in the jars by early man?
11: Why do farmers grow some crops in some areas and not in other areas?
12: How did the early villages come into being?
13: How did the life change with the beginning of agriculture?
14: What do you mean by domestication of plants and animals?
15: Where did the Stone Age man live?
Answers
Answer:
Q.1) Match the following
a. Old stone age
b. Middle stone age
c. Upper stone age
I. Tools like copper and hand axes
II. Tools like arrow head and srappers
III. Tools were points, crescentic blades, scrapper
Options are as follows:
a(I),b(II),c(III)
a(III),b(II),c(I)
a(II),b(III),c(I)
a(II),b(I),c(III)
Correct Answer: a(I),b(II),c(III)
Q.2) Neolithic age lasted till
8000 to 2000 B.C
9000 to 4000 B.C
9000 to 3000 B.C
10000 to 4000 B.C
Correct Answer: 10000 to 4000 B.C
Q.3) Which is not the limitation of the Chalcolithic age
The infant mortality was low
People yet to develop script
People of this culture did not know the art of mixing copper and tin to make bronze
It was predominately a rural civilization
Correct Answer: The infant mortality was low
Q.4) Name the site where evidence of Neolithic culture were found wheat , Barley and green gram were cultivated by animals like buffalo and ox
Mahagara
Mahrgarh
Chirand
Gurkral
Correct Answer: Chirand
Q.5) How early people became farmer
People naturally developed the power of growing crops
From animals and birds they learn farming
They came to know about it from their farmers
They observed many things like how seeds broke off stalk and fell on the ground and new plants sprouted, protecting them from birds etc.
Correct Answer: They observed many things like how seeds broke off stalk and fell on the ground and new plants sprouted, protecting them from birds etc.
Q.6) Sites from where archaeologist found evidence of early farmers and herders
Rajasthan
Mumbai
Kashmir
Gujarat
Correct Answer: Kashmir
Q.7) Bones of Ox have been found on which of the following sites
Chirand
Paiyampali
Mahagara
Burzahorn
Correct Answer: Chirand
Q.8) Why Ox and horse were called pack animals
they were used to carry load
They contain packs in their body
They move in a group
They make packs
Correct Answer: they were used to carry load
Q.9) Pit-houses in Burzahom have been found why people make such type of house
Provide shelter for making potteries
Provide shelter in Autumn weather
Provide shelter in Cold weather
Provide shelter in Hot weather
Correct Answer: Provide shelter in Cold weather
Q.10) What are the main differences in Neolithic tools when compared to tools of Palaeolithic age
Mortars and pestles used for grinding grain and other plant produce in Neolithic age
Palaeolithic age man progressed further
Axes, sickles , spears and arrows were used in Palaeolithic age
Palaeolithic tools were polished to give a fine cutting edge
Correct Answer: Mortars and pestles used for grinding grain and other plant produce in Neolithic age
Q.11) Which of the following is false regarding the social life of the people of Chalcolithic age
There was a leader in the village
They have made rules of conduct of their communities
Men spun and wove clothes
Started living in communities
Correct Answer: Men spun and wove clothes
Q.12) Match the following
a. Kashmir
b. Uttar Pradesh
c. Andhra Pradesh
I. Koldihwa, Mahagara
II. Gulkral, Burzahom
III. Hallur, Psiyampalli
Options are as follows:
a(II),b(I),c(III)
a(I),b(II),c(III)
a(II),b(III),c(I)
a(III),b(I),c(II)
Correct Answer: a(II),b(I),c(III)
Q.13) Match the following
a. Black gram, millet
b. Wheat, Green gram
c. Wheat, Lentil
I. Gulkral
II. Paiyampalli
III. Chirand
Options are as follows:
a(I),b(III),c(II)
a(III),b(II),c(I)
a(I),b(II),c(III)
a(II),b(III),c(I)
Correct Answer: a(II),b(III),c(I)
Q.14) Catal Huyunk is the Neolithic sites was found in
Egypt
Turkey
Iran
Iraq
Correct Answer: Turkey
Q.15) Neolithic sites, Catal Huyuk, were found in Turkey. Several things were brought from great distances?flint from_____, cowries from the______ , shells from the _______ ? and used in the settlement.
Malatya, Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea
Ankara, Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea
Konya, Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea
Syria, Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea
Correct Answer: Syria, Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea